Example sentences of "ask [pron] [to-vb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that somebody asked me to do some heads . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 3 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 5 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 6 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 7 | ‘ Details , of course , will take time and come later , but that 's my general philosophy ; that 's what you would get if you asked me to complete this job for you . ’ |
| 8 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 9 | But I asked them to photograph those documents which we found and they do n't want to do it , so that 's up to them . |
| 10 | Now did you draw I asked you to draw some graphs did n't I . |
| 11 | I asked you to move this lot , and you did n't ! |
| 12 | " You would n't get the wrong idea if I asked you to put that light out , would you ? " she asked . |
| 13 | Erm , I do n't know how , what we can do , I , I would suggest that we er , the Council writes to the President of the Board of Trade , making representations in support of the original boundaries of the bid , and , and also writes to our M Ps , whose constituencies are involved in this bid area , asking them to support these representations , er , er , and do the best we can to make sure that the , the five B area is as we submitted it . |
| 14 | It need only do what it does now when it examines doctors ' behaviour by asking them to justify that behaviour before a panel of their professional peers . |
| 15 | What we 're doing is showing them the colour of light , the hydrogen spectrum that 's given off and asking them to make some measurements on it which give a clue to the nature of what is happening in hydrogen . |
| 16 | D' ya think it might be worth writing to some of the and asking them to donate any paper plates ? |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all right , I 'm not asking you to divulge that purpose . |
| 18 | The C E C are obviously asking you to support this colleagues . |
| 19 | Erm , so I would certainly be asking you to keep some contingency provision in that area , because we project some very expensive one-off demands on certain elements of children 's services . |
| 20 | Erm and we find in the office that we get lots of forms coming in from the Paymaster General asking us to confirm that mister X is employed you know on a on a part time basis . |
| 21 | To remind the assembly that this is a matter which was raised I think by Mr a couple of years ago and when a very similar motion was accepted by the Board er asking us to raise this matter with the the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scotland , which we did er we know that there has been attention paid to this by the , the hierarchy . |
| 22 | I phoned Annie and asked her to cancel both performances today , and those on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 23 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 24 | The Star , for example , had managed to locate their wedding photographer , who claimed that the day after the wedding ceremony the couple asked him to do some pictures with the woman ‘ posing in sexy French underwear ’ . |
| 25 | I asked him to bring those girls here . |
| 26 | You could even use a polaroid camera , show them the photo , ask them to recreate that moment . |
| 27 | Discuss the importance of the UP to urban and inner cities community development initiatives with your MP and any other MP or Peer that you may have contact with and ask them to raise these issues with government . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend asks me to do several things that might not be so easy to do at once . |
| 29 | Erm Hugh 's asked me to open this morning 's erm quality seminar . |
| 30 | ‘ She would often come and have an afternoon cup of tea with me and then pick my brain as to what BA had asked me to do that morning . |